"We wish this rule to be read often in the
community, so that none can offer the excuse of ignorance"
(RB 66, 8).

Today, women monastics outnumber men by more than two
to one. Thus, the even-numbered chapters below have been adapted for a women's
community. The odd-numbered chapters are for a men's community such as Saint
Benedict would have known. Mr. J. Frank Henderson edits a website that provides
information about the history, dissemination and use of the Rule
of Benedict adapted for and by women. Several contemporary scholarly and
literary translations of the Rule into English exist, but the Leonard
Doyle translation used here is familiar to generations of US and other
English-speaking monastics from its widespread and long term use in refectories
and chapter rooms.

Includes manuscripts, books, editions, translations, etc. arranged
chronologically by publication. S. Aquinata Boeckmann's "Bibliography
for Students of the Rule of Benedict" is a comprehensive, classified
list of books and articles that is updated with regularity.

More Bibliographica Benedictina

MnPALS is an on-line catalog
that includes three Benedictine libraries in Minnesota whose collections are
rich in monastic holdings.